If you're fully up to date on the current online chatter, you'd probably think that Sony itself is the main villain of Marvel's Avengers. It has, after all, put Spider-Man under the PlayStation-themed lock and key and given users of its consoles more reasons than ever to stick with the Japanese giant. But no, there is an actual in-game enemy to pit your team of superheroes against. It goes by the name of A.I.M., a corporation that picked up the pieces after the Avengers team fell apart. You can learn even more about them in the trailer above.
The footage covers references to the comic books and what A.I.M. has to offer to the world. It serves as a good recap of the story as we draw closer to the game's release on 4th September 2020. Don't forget, however, that you can gain four days of early access play if you pick up the Deluxe Edition. You could have saved the Earth before some players even have the chance to start the campaign.
Are you hyped for Marvel's Avengers? Save the world in the comments below.
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Sadly, having played the beta last weekend, I'm not hyped for this game in the least, which coming from a lifelong marvel fan is saying something.
Played the beta over the weekend and thought it was mediocre, some parts were half decent but Iron Mans flying bit was poor, the attempted Naughty Dog style exposition was far away from the quality of the aforementioned studio and the loot had no appeal. Not for me, I'll stick to Insomniacs upcoming Spider-Man game for my superhero fix
Thought the beta was better than I expected but I'll be picking this up in the Xmas store sale when its heavily discounted and about £20
Need to try the beta already!
@carlos82 Crystal Dynamics continue to be a mediocre developer in my eyes. Tomb Raider reboot trilogy, now Avengers, those games are missing something extra, something that I would feel the need to play them.
@Matej I've been thinking the same thing. I couldn't but a finger on why I didn't feel any need to get the third Tomb Raider game in that series, or why the Avengers beta felt so mediocre to me, but I think the best way I can put it is to say that for me they were just in no way compelling. Nothing about them draws me in or makes me want to keep playing. 🤷♂️
I got a beta key from Virgin Broadband. It was awful, I uninstalled it before finishing the intro story. A dull, repetitive slog that feels like a licensed game from the PS1 or PS2 era.
@Matroska That seems like a very unfair statement to make considering you didn't even finish the first mission.
@Matej To be fair, the first Tomb Raider reboot was a good game (it could have been better without mass shootings imo, but it was still good). The other two were mediocre games with some enjoyable parts. But at the same time, they developed the very good Lara Croft games (Guardian of Light and Temple fo Osiris).
So yeah, maybe it was a mistake to give them that big of game as Avengers...
@Olmaz Yes, the first one was good, Rise had fine last hour, I can't think of anything that stood to me as "hey, that was pretty cool" in Shadow. I think I would have never played it if it wasn't in PS+. The main problem was this version of Lara was a badly written character (from my point of view) and the constant watch Lara finally become the Tomb Raider thing that span across whole trilogy was kinda meh.
Temple of Osiris was good as well (finished it solo), I imagine it was a blast in coop mode.
getting this game on Playstation 5!
as for the haters say salty lol
For a moment, I envisioned Sony's boss as S.C.E.J.: Society Capturing Exclusive Junk.
Seriously though, headline and opening lines are trying way too hard at this.
@LiamCroft
Gun Gun Pixies on Nintendo Switch was my first review code. Opening segments are rarely a sample of what the entire game has to offer, but sometimes you don't need a second impression.
The gameplay is decent, but not enough to keep me going for the 100s of hours this kind of game requires. I'll stick to miles moralis and spider-man 2
@LiamCroft
I think it's totally fair assessment. The whole point of the intro is to get you interested in the game and it's pretty awful with clunky controls and a camera you're constantly fighting. It doesn't get much better after that and I'm sick of loot nonsense already after only just catching up on my games backlog to find loads of games doing it.
@Diamond1980
Maybe to find your own words instead of parroting the same tired old phrases to wind people up.
I’m going to hopefully try the beta on my laptop tonight and make my own mind up on what I think of it. However from what everyone has to say about it I’m thinking of getting it on sale down the line as I was going to buy it day 1 but never know beta could change my mind again!
I guess this is the new game to hate judging from comments around the web. The beta is ok. But there is a lot of potential in this game. I hope the developers can really build on to endgame. And the rhetoric behind Sony spider man exclusivity is getting tiresome.
Like most people here i too was disappointed by the beta. Thing is the story seems fine and if it was a single player linear game not a 'live service' style game.
@LiamCroft i think the game is great, yes their issues with the shaky cam frame rate and last but not least the over all design of the characters other than that the game is going to be amazing!
I see so many people complaining about the beta and feel like I played a different game.I liked what I saw of the story ( Kamala is one of my favorite Marvel characters) and I had hours of fun running missions solo and leveling up the characters.
I really feel like that first negative articles that went up before the beta prejudiced people into not liking the game so everyone is just giving up on it right away.
@Matej I really think that the first reboot tomb raider was the only good one. After that it's just mediocre
I'm glad Spider-Man is a Sony exclusive. The salty tears of crying fanboys is the elixir that grants me eternal youth.
@LiamCroft I played for quite a while, as each of the characters until it got to the part where you're Hulk for a long time. I just wanted it to end. I don't mean I just did the bridge part. It takes a lot for me to just stop playing a game, let alone uninstall after about 60-90 mins.
I did play the beta recently
It was ok. The campaign does look like it's going to get really monotnous fulfiling a lot of the same objectives for multiple missions on end
Definitely not one I'm itching to buy at full price. Could care less about Spider-Man being exclusive to PlayStation because I know it won't be as good as the Insomniac Spider-Man
I played the beta and unlike nearly everyone on here I really enjoyed myself.In fact when I went to play it the next day I was disappointed to find the beta was over.
The question though is whether I want to buy that sweet Steelbook from Game or if to wait on a sale.
Look, I don`t know about you guys (coming from a guy who wasn`t excited about this game at all before the beta) but the combat in this game is better than 90% of the games. Granted it`s not better than GOW or TLOU2`s comabt but it`s still really good so why are you guys whining ?
@Shepherd_Tallon Third Tomb Raider game was so...weird. looked good, played well...i couldn't finish it. it was boring or something. just a slog...
Beta was too boring and repetitive for me. I didn't even finish that.
I'm not going to purchase this title, not at least ofn full price.
Not every game needs to be 10/10 quality, there are a lot of games out there that are 6/10 or 7/10 quality that are great fun, this game feels like one of those judging from the 2 hours of the beta I played.
I love superheroes so I'll pick this up when it's a little cheaper (and closer to the release of spidey) so I can get two copies and play Co op with my girlfriend!
@feral1975 If he didn't use tired catch phrases he wouldn't have anything to post and he must post.
@Cloud39472 Crystal Dynamics is proving what we already know to be true, live services are garbage and you should ALWAYS wait a year before buying the game.
@PeakyBlinder combat was terrible
I can see why people had issues with this game, it needs polish like one scene where Kamala was going through the archive which is just like Lara crawling between rocks so Crystal Dynamics should be well practiced at that she just clipped through a knocked over book case stood up, no animation or crouching.
Personally I enjoyed a lot of bits too, the coop was fun for a quick 20 min mission which after work sometimes is all I need. I do the same with Gundam Battle Operation.
The story has potential I liked the bits with abomination and hulk it felt like the comics, like they had history and hints about hulk not being right i.e not being the big green and getting injured/lack of near insta healing
I think the one word that describes this game is potential it's got all the right parts but they've just not been stuck together very well, personally if I was Square/Crystal I would have released the beta 6 months ago took some feedback and made improvements or delayed the game for 6 months. Several months worth of patches and a $20-$30 price reduction I'll will probably pick this up
@carlos82 agreed, it's alright. Definitely has potential, but definitely won't be ironed out my launch. This is a sale pick up for sure. Can see this being fun just to mess around with, when playing with some friends.
@Xiaolin I think calling them garbage is a tad hyperbolic but yeah I agree that it's best to wait for these kinds of games, unless it's Anthem or Fallout 76, no amount of waiting could save those.
@Matej I got bored of the first Tomb Raider reboot and never played the rest. On paper, I liked it. But it just couldn't grab me enough to get me to turn it on and play (I feel the same way about Skyrim, though I know most would disagree there). Not sure if this Avengers game is anything worth playing, but it looked a little more interesting.
As for Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris.. it always seemed so odd to me that a couple of Lara Croft games were actually some of the best action/puzzle/platformers I've played.
This Avengers game may suck. I don't know that I'll even buy it. However... The idea that people are getting bent out of shape about Spiderman being PlayStation exclusive is a little silly. Sony spent billions to get the right to the character years ago. It's not like other companies don't and wouldn't do the same thing. No one got mad with Starlink when Fox McCloud was exclusive to the Switch.. and that changed drastic amounts of story and even had its own side campaign.
Honestly, rather than being angry that Spiderman is exclusive, they should be happy that the entire game isn't exclusive.
@ohhaime I completely agree. When I first saw gameplay it looked terrible, but I played the beta with two friends last night and we had a ton of fun. I was completely sold on it after playing it. I get that it’s not for everyone, but I feel like I played an entirely different game.
Crystal Dynamics were the creators of one of my favourite games, God of War. But, when I started playing the BETA for Marvel's Avengers. Honestly, I didn't feel like an avenger, I felt like a stupid little action figure, Hulk jumps like his got 50 ton weights on his feet, Iron Man literally flies as though his being held by a kid and I swear I could hear a child spitting Pew pew pew while I was blasting away.
Thor was also disappointing but I couldn't actually put my finger down on that one, the best character I played as and quite enjoyed was Black Widow. Captain America eh.... I almost felt like I was God of War without a weapon, just my trusty shield, bang bang bang bang bang like a pinball machine. They all feel way too underpowered, I reckon this game would have been best as a huge open single player sandbox game with destructible buildings no health bars (except bosses) and just literally feel like a badass, flying at the speed of sound in your iron man suit like the old superman game. Jumping at insane height with hulk, running 40 mph with superhuman speed and strength of Captain America, and practically swinging around the a city with Kamala Kahn. Not going to lie, some of the powers in Marvel's Avengers were satisfying like the iconic hulk smash thing he did with Loki in the movies, just not my game. I'm sad now.
@Deltath Sony doesn't have the rights to Spider-Man the characterthey have his film rights, otherwise how do you explain doc ock, spider-gwen, venom, peter parker himself, miles morales, the sandman, and green goblin all being in UA3 which came out last year?
Having unlocked the content for playing the demo [on the first weekend], I haven't really touched it since because time spent on the demo will spoil the excitement of playing the game.
I preordered the Deluxe Edition [the PS4 Exclusive edition also allows you early access]; so, I cannot play the full game.
It is awesome so far. I get flashbacks of the opening to Avengers: Age of Ultron during the forest battles.
Game is gonna own.
@jbreez00 if a multi-platform Marvel
game appears on a Sony console, Spider-Man is exclusive or he cannot be featured at all. That was part of the movie deal with Disney/Marvel.
MAU3 was exclusive to the switch.
@PeakyBlinder
I'm with you dude. I played an about a dozen hours of the beta and I love the combat. There are lots of different combos and each character feels unique and appropriate to what they should be.
For those saying the combat sucks I would be curious as to what games they say do have good combat. Your opinion is of course your opinion but I have not been playing the same games as you apparently.
The only complaint I have, if you can even call it that is the enemies can take a lot of damage, but if they all died in one hit like the movies then that wouldnt be any fun.
I am curious as to how long the single player campaign will be because I think that will be the best part of the game since the missions are tailored to the specific character you are controlling but the multiplayer was fun for me too. And I am not a loot/games as service guy having not played Fortnite or more than a few hours of Destiny.
I understand if the game is not for you but I really dont understand the hate. After the beta last weekend I preordered this which is something I have literally never done for a game in this or any generation.
@jbreez00 Money. And even if they didn't, Sony isn't the developer or publisher. Of course they'd want exclusive content. Blame Square for shilling for it.
@armondo36 I hear you. By the time I got to the end of the second game I thought that Lara herself was boring. She's a character I want to love, but I couldn't listen to her by the end.
@Deltath Played Avengers beta this weekend, completed story missions (it was okay, nothing special, just okay) and few I don't know what they are called, other missions. These were a joke. I mean a 5-minute long mission where you go to 3 locations, beat some bad guys and job done? No thank you. The only character that I felt like I enjoy to play was Black Widow. A solo game with her would be nice. To sum it up, I will definitely pass on this game.
About Skyrim - the popularity and adoration of this game is beyond my comprehension. Except the OST, that is amazing.
And as for the Guardian and Osiris games, yeah, experiments can produce unexpected results. Lara Croft GO is a great example.
@Ps1toPSPlus How do you explain him and venom being includee in MVCI then? That one was alao a multiplat game and sony were the ones to annouce it. It not only came out after Spider-Man homecoming and whatever deal you claim they made on these games to bring him into the mcu in the first place, it came out a year before Spider-Man the game.
@jbreez00 well, MvCI came out in 2017. Spider-Man Far From Home came out in 2019. The new Spider-Man movie deal Disney signed with Sony was in September of 2019. So, your example has no impact on this new multi-platform game making Spider-Man exclusive to Sony.
@LiamCroft interesting topic: which games with dull opening moments turned out to be classics? And what proportion of all games that start with a whimper defy first impressions?
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